Helplessly Letting Go (sermon – audio)

Helplessly Letting Go Here is the audio version of this morning's sermon.  I....


Disposable Believe-ables: What UUs Have to Gain From Prayer

This semester I am enrolled in two classes, both of which will no doubt inform....


What To Do? Syria and Helplessness

I have been thinking about and reflecting upon and experiencing feelings of helplessness a lot lately.  There's good reason, some of which is too personal to go into here, but it's been a major theme in my spiritual life this past year, made explicit....


On Grace: And So This Is How I Asked for Help

When I became the only parent of two children, aged 5 and 7, I learned more....


Removing Foot from Earnest Young Puppy's Mouth

A story from a sermon by a Unitarian Universalist minister – one who served....


Mitzvahs at the March

When I see facial expressions or the way she pushes her hair from her face much like the way her birth mother does, I can sometimes grieve the the process of not passing on traits that biologically-related parents do.  (I have written a poem, New Same....


Sign of the Times: Signs of the March

Here is my photo montage of the March on Washington, 2013.  It is wholly....


A Bridge, Not a Wedge: Why I am Going to the March on Washington Tomorrow

Our job is to use love, anger, and imagination to show where to go, and....


My Vanilla Partner: Bisexuality, Het Privilege & Fluidity

I still find it exotic.  And ironic.  My husband.  When the phrase leaves my tongue, it’s accompanied by a mix of pride and bemusement.  Me?  With a husband?  A male husband? When my ex and I broke up after a decade together, because I had....


Conflict Fluency, Matching, Shushing: Taking a Leap of Faith

Today is day two of a three-day training intensive called “Culture,....